Shoot the Dog

A man walked into his back yard one morning and found a gorilla
in a tree. He called a gorilla-removal service, and soon a
serviceman arrived with a stick, a Chihuahua, a pair of
handcuffs and a shotgun.


"Now listen carefully," he told the homeowner. "I'm going to
climb the tree and poke the gorilla with the stick until he
falls to the ground. The trained Chihuahua will then go right
for his, uh, sensitive area, and when the gorilla instinctively
crosses his hands in front to protect himself, you slap on the
handcuffs."


"Got it", the homeowner replied. "But what's the shotgun for?"


"If I fall out of the tree before the gorilla", the man said,
"shoot the Chihuahua."